Ironing-table.



No. 694,800. Patented Mar. 4, I902.

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(Application filed Mar.-28, 1901.; (No Model.

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DAVID A. SOX, OF HARALSON, GEORGIA.

iRONlNG-TABLE.

SI-ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,800, dated March 4, 1902. Application filed March 28, 1901. Serial No. 53,309. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID A. SOX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haralson, in the county of Coweta and State of Georgia, have invented a newand useful IroningTable, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ironing-tables.

- The object of the-present invention is to improve the construction of ironing-tables and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one which will be strong and durable and which may be compactly folded when not in use.

A further object of the invention is to divide the ironing-board into a bosom-board and a skirt-board and to arrange the legs at the adjacent ends of such portions of the ironing-board so that the operator may have the full use of both portions of the board.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ironing-table constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a reverse plan View.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates an ironing-board having a reduced portion 2 to form a bosom-board and provided with an enlarged portion 3, adapted to receive skirts and other garments, and in order to enable these portions of the ironingboard to be used completely by the operator without the arrangement of the garments being interfered with by the means for supporting the ironing-board legs 4: and 5 are hinged to the lower face of the ironing-board at the adjacent ends of the portions 2 and 3. The legs 4: and 5, which are secured to the lower face of the board by hinges 6 and 7, have abutting faces 8 and 9, arranged in contact with each other when the board is in use, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying draw-' ings, and by this construction the legs are adapted to support each other and form a solid structure. I The legs are forked,as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and they are rigidly held in an inclined position, as illustrated in Fig. 2, by means of braces 8 and 9', hinged at their inner or lower ends to the upper portions of gaging shoulders 12 and 13 of the ironingboard when theironing-table is set up for use. The legs may be constructed in any suitable manner, and the braces 8' and 9, which are connected with the legs by hinges 14 and 15, are adapted when the parts are folded to lie in the crotohes of the legs, with their upper or inner faces flush with the upper or inner faces of the legs, whereby the latter are cathe legs in recesses 10 and 11 thereof and enpable of folding fiat against the lowerface of the ironing-board. The braces do not interfere with the arrangement of a skirt or shirt on the portions 2 and 3 of the ironing-board, and such garments may be readily turned on the ironing-board to bring diiferent portions. of them at the top, and the legs will not in-m terfere with the free handling of such gar ments.

It will be seen that the ironing-table is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is readily arranged for use, and that it may be compactly folded when not in use. It will also be apparent that the inclined braces extend upward from the legs near the upper ends thereof, so that they will not interfere with the arrangement of a garment on the ironing-table.

In order to enable the legs to fold flat against the ironing-board, the latter is provided at its lower face with notches 16 and 17 to receive the eyes of the hinges 14: and 15.

What I claim is- '1. An ironing-table comprising an ironingboard, the folding legs hinged at their upper ends to the lower face of the ironing-board and provided with abutting faces and adapted to support each other, and the braces extending upward from the legs and engaging the ironing-board to support the ends of the latter and to lock the legs in engagement with each other, substantially as described.

2. An ironing-table comprising an ironingboard, the folding legs hinged at their upper ends to the ironing-board and having abut- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ting faces, and the braces hinged to the legs my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 10 near the upper ends thereof and supporting the presence of two Witnesses.

the end portions of the ironing-board and 5 holding the legs rigidly against each other, DAVID said legs being forked and adapted to receive Witnesses: the braces within the crotches of the forks, (J. M. BRAKEFIELD,

substantially as described. G. W. CALDWELL. 

